I
AM PLEASED TO WELCOME BACK AUTHOR
Ken
Koprowski
TITLE: Fathers
(Collected Poems 1973-2015)
RELEASE DATE:
July 30, 2016
AUTHOR: Ken
Koprowski
KEYWORDS:
fathers, fatherhood, poetry, parenthood, wilderness, war, death and survival,
love, triumph
CATEGORIES:
Poetry/Family
PAGE COUNT: 66
ISBN:
978-0692734827
IMPRINT: Veritas
AUTHOR BIO:
Ken Koprowski is a
poet, writer, communications consultant, and educator. His collection of
poetry, Fathers – Collected Poems 1973-2015, is being published by Ravenswood
Publishing in the spring of 2016. In addition to being a prolific writer, he is
an award-winning creative director and producer, and photographer. He earned
his M.A. in Creative Writing with a specialization in poetry and completed his
doctoral coursework at Syracuse University before pursuing a career in public
relations. He is working on a second book of poetry and a collection of short
stories entitled Draft Dodgers.
He currently
teaches advanced public relations writing and a range of public relations
subjects in the Master’s programs at New York University, Iona College and
Manhattanville College. In addition, he teaches crisis communication and
reputation management – courses he designed -- in the MBA program and business
communications at UConn Stamford.
Ken has extensive
advertising, marketing and communication management experience. He served as
corporate spokesperson in diverse, complex and difficult situations. Ken has
written speeches for many well-known corporate leaders, annual and CSR reports,
OPEDs, communications plans, ads, video and audio scripts, websites, blogs, and
more. He recently edited, and wrote the introduction and chapter on using
digital and social media in crisis communications for a popular crisis
communications handbook.
Ken grew up in the
Midwest – in Chicago and central and northern Wisconsin. For the past 40 years,
he’s lived and worked in New York, southwestern Connecticut and southern Vermont.
He and his wife of 35 years have three sons and a daughter, and they in turn
have nine children of their own.
BANTER
– STUFF ABOUT YOU
Q: When you think of
a garden, do you picture vegetables or flowers?
A: Both. These days,
flowers are the best bet -- the damn critters eat the veggies before I can
harvest them, although the deer eat the daylily buds before they can bloom,
sigh.
Q: If you didn’t have
to clean them, how many bathrooms would you have in your home?
A: What’s cleaning got to do with it? If you
gotta go, you gotta go somewhere.
How many if you have to clean them?
A: Hmmm, this
question tells more about you than me.
Q: Bedtime, relaxing
so you can sleep sounds. Is your preference, white noise, TV, soft music, ocean
waves, forest or meadow sounds, babbling brook, or something else?
A: The sound of silence, as in “Hello
darkness, my old friend.” (My thanks to Simon and Garfunkel.)
Q: What kind of music
do you listen to? Do you have an all time favorite song?
A: Classic jazz and
classic vinyl rock. Dave Grusin’s and Lee Ritenour’s “Mountain Dance,” followed
closely by Stevie Wonder’s “Sunshine of my life.”
Q: If your life were
a movie would it be considered an action film, comedy, drama, romance, fantasy
or a combination?
A: It has been and is
all the above, although comedy and fantasy tend to dominate.
Q: How do you feel
about exercise?
A: Love it outdoors,
not so much in the gym. These days, I’m walking four to six miles.
BOOKS
– ABOUT THE CRAFT
Q: What is your
favorite part of writing?
A: Having an idea and
then developing it word by word, metaphor by metaphor and watching it bud and
blossom like a rose.
Q; Now your least
favorite part?
A: Proofreading and
copyediting.
Q: Describe your
favorite heroine? (This doesn’t have to be one of yours.)
A: The two women in “Cold Mountain,” Ada Monroe and Ruby Thewes. After them, it would be Peewee, below.Q: Describe your favorite hero? (This doesn’t have to be one of yours.)
Q: Who's your favorite author?
A: I have many
favorites, from poets John Ashberry, Michael Anania and Robert Duncan to Robert
Heinlein and C.S. Lewis.
Q: Your favorite
title?
A: “Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” followed by Hunter S. Thompson’s many “Fear and Loathing” articles.
Q: Which holiday
celebrations do you like to incorporate into your stories and why?
A: In “Fathers,”
deaths are celebrated often - I’ve lost all of mine.
Q: Generally
speaking, is your work based on real life experience? If it's not would you
want it to be?
A: Yes, but not in an
autobiographical way. Life inspires my writing.
BOOKS
- NOW LETS PROMOTE – STRUT YOUR STUFF
Q: What are you
working on now? Would you like to share anything about it?
A: My current
collection of poems, “Postcards to the living,” is about the messages the
departed “send” us when our memories are triggered by something in the
landscape or news or intersecting thoughts or even a calendar date or holiday.
It begins with a “message” from my late friend and golf partner -- he missed
our scheduled game because of an unexpected pulmonary embolism in Prague. I
played the round with my memories of him. The departed have ways of reminding
us of how we miss them and why. I’m also shaping a book - probably a series of
interrelated short stories about the Vietnam War era and its impact on
families.
Q: How can we find
you? Do you have a web page, Facebook page or any buy links?
A: Yes, I do. Here are the links.
AUTHOR LINKS:
http://www.koprowskicomm.com http://twitter.com/KenKoprowski
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenkoprowski
Buy Links:
AMAZON US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HFMXHKA
AMAZON UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HFMXHKA
AMAZON CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01HFMXHKA
CREATESPACE: https://www.createspace.com/6328971
ONE LINER:
Fathers
is an inspiring, highly emotive collection of poems exploring fatherhood – its
mysteries, triumphs, magic, humor, pain, and loss. In it the poet illustrates that being a Dad
is perhaps the most rewarding aspect of living, and at times, one of the most
frustrating -- engaging all that is human in the reader.
SYNOPSIS:
Fathers
is an inspiring and highly emotive collection of poems spanning 40 years.
Fatherhood is the inspiration for much of this book – its mysteries, triumphs,
magic, humor, pain, and loss. In it the
poet – an acute observer and lyrical writer – explores fatherhood from the
perspective of a grandson, son, father, husband, and grandfather. His poems
illustrate that being a dad is perhaps the most rewarding aspect of living, and
at times, one of the most frustrating. The pages of this remarkable volume will
engage all that is human in the reader.
Excerpt/Sample
southern vermont symphony
throughout the night freezing rain
coats the mountainsides
every twig pine bough trunk rock ledge road
coated
by dawn, each weighed down with
crystalline coat
a tinkling concert begins
first ever so
softly
and as the sun rises
behind the clouds
andante patter with crescendos
as boughs spring free in rebellion
or self-preservation, sudden
crashes cymbals
in a wild arrangement now
vivace
rush of ice falling until
the middle March symphony suddenly ends
leaving a silvery carpet sparkling and
crackling underfoot
illuminating my walk
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